Sentence examples for operation to which from inspiring English sources

It is an vast operation to which Turkish authorities turn a blind eye: in a telling illustration of their permissiveness, one of Izmir's main refugee-gathering points lies just across the road from the city's security directorate.

But today Fiat is prospering and, thanks to an equity-swap operation to which IFIL was party (and which prompted criticism and legal action), the family's hold is secure.

Because the principal operation to which harbour works are dedicated is transfer of goods from one transportation form to another (e.g., from ships to trucks), it follows that docks, wharves, and quays are the most important assets of a port.

It was proposed to repeat the operation, to which she was quite willing to submit; but her son, apprehensive she might not be able the necessary loss of blood in so doing, dissented, and she returned home; she has not been heard from since.

The first operation, to which all six regular aircraft carriers, two battleships, three cruisers, and 11 destroyers were allocated, was to be a surprise attack, scheduled for December 7 December 88 by Japanese time), on the main U.S. Pacific Fleet in its base at Pearl Harbor in the Hawaiian Islands.

What is particularly wooden-headed about this is that Afghanistan ought to have been a golden opportunity for NATO to show its continuing usefulness in the post-cold-war world by conducting exactly the sort of "out-of-area" operation to which it needs to adapt itself if it is not to die.

Mr. Rumsfeld authorized American officers to attend multinational seminars on relief operations to which Chinese officers were also invited.

Ge Hong enumerated an extensive selection of material substances and practical operations to which he attributed varying degrees of relative efficacy in the prolongation of life.

As in 1910, the set of sets of natural numbers that are definable via admissible operations (to which now also a form of iteration is added) is denumerable.

The different sorting operations to which it is subjected can only reduce its percentage of defects.

On the other hand, and more significantly, his treatment relies on an interpretation of arithmetical operations according to which these operations are taken to be closed operations on line segments.